What is it?

A day-long symposium for educators and web designers to come together for talks about design principals, industry skills and standards as it applies to preparing students for careers in design.

Who should attend?

This symposium is geared toward high school and college instructors in the areas of web design, graphic design, technology, information technology, video/multimedia, and marketing. Designers, developers, and students are also invited to attend in an effort to open up the conversation between the education and business sides of the design community.

Speakers

Samantha Warren

Samantha's goal is a site that's bold, exciting, usable, and well-built. Sometimes that means she's obsessing over the perfect typeface to tell the story, while other times she'll be crunching on the markup and styles behind the scenes. A Senior Web Designer at Phase2 Technology in the Washington, DC area, recent years have found her working for a variety of clients including National Geographic, Choice Hotels International, and The National Basketball Players Association. Her passion for design and the web doesn't end at quitting time. She has been published in .NET Magazine, regularly speaks at industry events including SXSW Interactive, and is on the Board of the Art Directors Club of Washington DC. When she is not doing any of the above you can find her enthusiastically teaching typography and web design at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University.

Layne Lev

Layne has spent the last fifteen years of his life applying his passion for graphic arts to the fields of print and web design. After spending seven years as a graphic designer in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, he returned to his native Fresno to help found Hundred10, a nationally-recognized web and mobile application development firm. The team at Hundred10 were recently awarded both "Best of Show" and "Best of the Web" at the 2010 FAF ADDY Awards. Layne holds a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Communication from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and is a former winner of the Fresno Design Alliance's Iron Designer Challenge. In addition to being an avid skier and racquetball player, he can (and usually will) quote any line from any movie ever filmed on cue.

Katrina Neufeld

An award-winning graphic designer, Katrina launched Neu Design in 2000. She holds a BA in Graphic Design from California State University, Fresno. With a keen eye for detail, Katrina's style is clean, fresh, and intuitive. She offers a unique combination of creativity and technological expertise. Her client list includes State Center Community College District, Fresno City College, UC Merced, Coldwell Banker, Fresno Magazine, and California State University, Fresno. In January 2005, Katrina established the Fresno Design Alliance, a non-profit focused on the collaboration of professional and student graphic designers devoted to developing Fresno's design awareness. FDA seeks to give back to the community by allying with educators, design students, businesses and non-profits.